After Osbourne's attack on IT contractors

[DimPrawn]

There's quite a sense of entitlement amongst contractors. Apparently we're entitled to earn more money for a better working lifestyle, and to tax breaks as well.

You are one very odd IT contractor. I suspect you are a paid-up perma-temp under IR35, probably making up the difference by grassing up real contractors to HMR&C and receiving a bounty.

[BrilloPad]

You are amongst the richest people in society and people do not like it. Better get used to being attacked

1. We are not as rich as politicians
2. we are not as rich as bankers
3. we are not as rich as agents

More importantly, we have to do something called "work". You might need to google that....

[DimPrawn]

You are amongst the richest people in society and people do not like it. Better get used to being attacked

You should have been an estate agent. With all the property ramping they are pulling in a fortune. Like £50k in fees on an average sale in the SE, and these houses sell themselves.

It's a pity you chose to pimp out some Romanians for £10/hr instead.

[PurpleGorilla]

If the right premie job came up - I'd take it - tomorrow (very unlikely one will come up); but until then I am happy to take more cash upfront (even with the budget still better off than permie), and manage my own affairs.

[BrilloPad]

You should have been an estate agent. With all the property ramping they are pulling in a fortune. Like £50k in fees on an average sale in the SE, and these houses sell themselves.

It's a pity you chose to pimp out some Romanians for £10/hr instead.

Who else is going to clean all your BTLs?

[tractor]

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There's quite a sense of entitlement amongst contractors. Apparently we're entitled to earn more money for a better working lifestyle, and to tax breaks as well.

It's quite clear you don't pay voluntary tax/NI on your dividends and you don't pay all your companies profit out as PAYE, so you are a hypocrite and no one here will ever take you seriously.

[DimPrawn]

It's quite clear you don't pay voluntary tax/NI on your dividends and you don't pay all your companies profit out as PAYE, so you are a hypocrite and no one here will ever take you seriously.

He's a tedious twunt.

[VectraMan]

He's a tedious twunt.

He is right though.

I'd like you all to go into a pub, or anywhere else where you find a collection of ordinary working non-contractor people and explain how outraged you are that you're now going to have to pay 7.5% tax on part of your income and how disgusting it is that as high earning tax avoidiers you've been singled out and how the extra risk you take justifies paying tax at a lower rate than them even though you typically earn twice as much. And then see how much sympathy you get.

[EternalOptimist]

We might be £600 quid better off plus a load of risk, but that's on an equivalent salary.
Contractors do not get equivalent salaries/income.

[expat]

This government, and Osborne in particular, are determined to reduce the economic impact of the state on their kind of people to the absolute minimum. This involves reducing the outgoings on things that do not affect their kind of people (e.g. benefits, savings) and increasing the take from those other than their kind of people (e.g. by removing small-time tax breaks).

What people on here had not grasped until now is that we are not their kind of people. Well, you know now.